Ole: They Put Me With Keane To Toughen Me Up
May 16, 2011 3 Comments
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has reflected on his second season at Manchester United
when he started to suffer from a lack of confidence.
“It’s incredible how important confidence is,” he said. “I had very low
confidence, I thought too much in periods. They put me on the team with Roy
Keane on every training for a month to toughen me up. Roy yelled at me and
they wanted me to respond. Finally I got enough and yell back. After
training, I asked the coach why I was placed on Keane’s team all the time.
‘We want you to stand up for yourself,’ he said.”
Solskjaer reflected on a moment midway through the 1997-1998 season after
believing he had worked hard to battle against his lacking confidence, after
being told by Ferguson that he would get to play and show off in the next
few weeks. With a game coming up against Southampton in 1998, Teddy
Sheringham, Andy Cole, Dwight Yorke and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer were all called
into Ferguson’s office. He said he would start with Sheringham and Cole in
the next game. “Everybody happy with that?”. The other players nodded,
stood up and walked out of the office. Solskjaer was sitting. “What’s up
son?”. “I am not happy with it. You said you’d give me the chance, you
challenged me, now is your chance.” Ferguson looked at him. “Okay, go and
get Teddy for me.” |
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